Does Rodgers deserve another season.

[Russ Atmosphere]

If it sounds too good to be true...

[Anubis]

Not a chance Rodgers will walk so I'm smelling bullshit.

[Josef Svejk]

Not a chance Rodgers will walk so I'm smelling bullshit.

 

"Mutual agreement" (with a massive wad of cash) = walking.

[Section_31]

In other news, Kelly Brook waiting in the wings should A Reds mrs walk

 

According to respected newspaper The Sunday Sport, the 34DD beauty has told friends that she'd be willing to take a break from her sabbatical to pour Canadaian maple syrup on A Red's balls and tongue it off. But sources close to A Red say he's reluctant to shave his groin due to the encroaching winter months. 

[Denny Crane]

Sounds like the sort of thing Rodgers would say.

 

Rodgers talking on talksport said " I wasn't sacked from Liverpool, we had a conscious uncoupling and I wanted to pursue other opportunities to implement my grand ideas in my dossier".

 

When Rodgers goes it will be very facesaving from the owners and Rodgers. They will have both failed.

[Russ Atmosphere]

CA: What's in here Ian? Looks like someone playing football manager, and someone else watching YouTube clips.

 

IA: This is where the magic happens Carlo. You'll be staking your lifetime's reputation on these guys. Let's move on to my office to sign that contract and do the photos... Carlo? erm did anyone see which way he went?

[J-V]

 

LFC Globe ‏@LFCGlobe  2h2 hours ago

Klopp is not first choice. Ancelotti is.

 

LFC Globe ‏@LFCGlobe  2h2 hours ago

Rodgers being sacked is not on the agenda. Not yet, anyway.

 

LFC Globe ‏@LFCGlobe  49m49 minutes ago

To clarify, FSG don't want to sack BR. However, they believe BR may walk, so have sounded out Ancelotti, who is keen to come to LFC.

 

LFC Globe ‏@LFCGlobe  48m48 minutes ago

Ancelotti has made it VERY clear to FSG he will come to LFC, that may push them into making a decision, but not soon as of now.

 

 

LFC Globe have covered all their bases.  They can't fail to be right.

[myrlas]

Pearce:

#LFC adamant that they have not made an approach to Carlo Ancelotti. FSG still backing Brendan Rodgers.

[billypilgrimnz]

Backing him to do what, exactly?

[Gym Beglin]

Seems a fair bit of subterfuge going on here. LFC responding to rumours, and FSG 'backing' someone, it's all very much unlike us.

 

 

FSG are obviously fucking idiots to appoint him in the first place.

 

The minute a 'manager' comes to an interview with shit yellow teeth, it should indicate to a canny interview panel that he couldn't even manage a fucking toothbrush twice a day, let alone a fucking football club.

[littletedwest]

turn it around. Even though it was him who turned us in the wrong direction in the first place.

[littletedwest]

Seems a fair bit of subterfuge going on here. LFC responding to rumours, and FSG 'backing' someone, it's all very much unlike us.

FSG are obviously fucking idiots to appoint him in the first place.

The minute a 'manager' comes to an interview with shit yellow teeth, it should indicate to a canny interview panel that he couldn't even manage a fucking toothbrush twice a day, let alone a fucking football club.

it's exactly like us we have been a shambles at boardroom level since I was a teenager. Which sadly was fucking twenty years ago

[Jairzinho]

Backing him to do what, exactly?

 

They're backing him at 2/1 to be the next manager sacked. It'll pay for Ancelotti's transfer budget.

[Wezza]

I've just seen that our chance conversion so far this season is 4.7% (only Arsenal are worse on 2.5%) compared to West Ham with a whopping 20.6%. Have West Ham been lucky, or do we just have players that can't shoot, as well as players that can't defend, and if so what sort of coaching methods are we employing?!

[magicrat]

I've just seen that our chance conversion so far this season is 4.7% (only Arsenal are worse on 2.5%) compared to West Ham with a whopping 20.6%. Have West Ham been lucky, or do we just have players that can't shoot, as well as players that can't defend, and if so what sort of coaching methods are we employing?!

 

We have good players that are played out of position , lack confidence and are managed by someone out of his depth

[navbasi]

Tony Barrett

Updated 11 minutes ago

 

Liverpool may have dismissed speculation about his future but, with the likes of Carlo Ancelotti hovering in the background, the manager must start winning - and quickly In hindsight, Rafael Benítez can identify the moment when he should have realised that he was about to be replaced as Liverpool manager. In the aftermath of a 1-0 away defeat to Lille in the Uefa Cup, Benitez boarded the team bus to the airport and Christian Purslow, the club’s then chief executive, sat down next to him. As conversation about the game and the forthcoming second leg subsided, Purslow asked him for his thoughts on another manager – Fulham’s Roy Hodgson. Five months later, Hodgson was confirmed as Benítez’s successor and the Spaniard belatedly realised that he had effectively been asked to provide a reference for the man who took his job.

 

It is an anecdote from the past but one which has resonance today as Brendan Rodgers deals with the reality that there are much more blatant signals that his job is under growing threat. Liverpool might have denied reports that they have approached Carlo Ancelotti but the fact that such speculation has emerged is the latest indication that Rodgers’s position is becoming increasingly precarious. Unfortunately for the Northern Irishman, in the cut-throat business that is top level football, the vultures are now circling.

 

Agents looking for uncertainty to take advantage of, perhaps to get their client a better deal or to flush out interest from other clubs, will look at Liverpool as easy meat. Linking a manager with the Liverpool job has no downside. Not only is Rodgers’s position in question, to such an extent that he is the bookmakers’ favourite to be the next Barclays Premier League manager to lose his job, but Liverpool also retains sufficient pulling power to be seen as the kind of club that someone with Ancelotti’s magnificent CV would at least consider.

 

All Rodgers can do is to carry on as if none of this is happening; believing that he can turn things around and hoping that his employers are not sounding out alternatives, even though his instinct, honed in an industry in which duplicity often comes as standard, will be telling him that it is unrealistic to expect owners of a major football club not to keep their options open. Liverpool have already denied the claims about Ancelotti, which originally emerged in Italy, but even if those reports are inaccurate now, Rodgers will know that should results not improve, it will only be a matter of time before a similar story emerges about another manager and it will be true.

 

This is the ground that Rodgers now occupies and it is why allowing him to continue as manager beyond the end of last season was always going to be a major gamble by Fenway Sports Group (FSG), Liverpool’s owners. The disappointing end to the previous campaign, where Liverpool lost an FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa and suffered heavy league defeats to Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Stoke City, could have been sufficient for Rodgers to lose his job but FSG opted to give him one more chance, a display of loyalty the downsides of which they are now discovering. It was always going to take just one further serious setback for Rodgers’s position to be placed in jeopardy again.

 

That it came so early in the season, with West Ham United’s first win at Anfield since 1963, means that FSG are already wrestling with the idea of having to make a managerial change that they had passed up on only a matter of months earlier. The situation is further complicated by the backing that they afforded Rodgers during the summer, when seven players were recruited for a combined cost in the region of £80 million. Could they really dispense with the services of a manager in those circumstances? The answer to that question is that Rodgers’ future will be dictated by forthcoming results.

 

Ideally, FSG would like to persevere with the man they appointed as manager three years ago, primarily because they shared a philosophy, for at least the rest of this season. That limited ambition, though, has come under mounting strain in recent weeks and it has been telling that FSG made no attempt to remove uncertainty about Rodgers’s future following defeats to West Ham and Manchester United in stark contrast to last season, when losses to Crystal Palace and Stoke were greeted with strong assurances that the manager’s position was not in any doubt.

 

In the current atmosphere, one of high uncertainty and growing supporter disenchantment, Rodgers will have to get used to other managers being linked with his job. It may be unedifying and it may be contrary to the spirit of managerial solidarity, but Rodgers’s plight is going to be exploited by others, including those who have no interest in succeeding him because they realise the scale of the rebuilding job at Anfield. The only way he can stop this from happening is by winning football matches, and enough of them to ensure that the kind of speculation he is experiencing shifts to another manager.

 

If there is one consolation, it is that if anyone at Liverpool asks him for his opinion on Hodgson, previous events dictate that it could only possibly be an innocent enquiry.

[TheHowieLama]

So FSG have approached Klopp  and Ancelotti - do they know what they are doing?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

"So Brendan, what are your thoughts about Garry Monk?"

[Dr Nowt]

"Like I said, Eddie's a wee embezzler, John."

[TheHowieLama]

BR: "Never heard of the cunt, John"

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Can you imagine the kind of character assassination it'd take for them not to hire someone?

 

Makes you wonder what someone's said about Klopp: "Look, all I'm saying is no one's proved he's not a nonce, have they? Think about that John".

[aws]

Backing him to do what, exactly?

Backing him into a corner hopefully.

[TheHowieLama]

 

 

Makes you wonder what someone's said about Klopp: "Look, all I'm saying is no one's proved he's not a Nazi, have they? Think about that John".

[Dr. J]

 

It may be unedifying and it may be contrary to the spirit of managerial solidarity, but Rodgers’s plight is going to be exploited by others, including those who have no interest in succeeding him because they realise the scale of the rebuilding job at Anfield

 

If after 3+ years and upwards of 300 million pounds the 'scale' of the rebuilding job is daunting how the fuck is he still here? It reminds me of the two American brothers who murdered their parents and then asked the judge for mercy because they were orphans.

 

And why on earth would someone not interested in the job want to exploit Rodgers' 'plight'?

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Nazis didn't have beards Howie. It's proof of non-Nazi status, but puts you closer to noncery.